What Syriac scribes chose to keep: a digital dive into 1,000 manuscripts, with a new measurement called Excerpts Per Manuscript (EPM) to track…
In-depth chemical analysis of three key 12th century medieval bronze doors by Barisanus of Trani uncovers which is the oldest and reveals how they were made; the analysed doors are from Trani, Ravello, Monreale
The LandCover6K working group looks to the past to understand the impacts of human land use in South Asia; a new study published in PLoS ONE
The early roots of carnival? Research into the Cerritos reveals evidence of seasonal celebrations in pre-colonial Brazil
Early Hominin toolmaking at the Melka Wakena site, in Ethiopia, sheds light on Engineering ingenuity; a study published in PLoS ONE
North American Early Paleoindians almost 13,000 years ago used the bones of canids, felids, and hares to create needles in modern-day Wyoming
12,000-year old stones from the Nahal-Ein Gev II dig site in northern Israel may be spindle whorls, a very early evidence of wheel-like technology
Bones from Tudor Mary Rose shipwreck suggest handedness might affect collarbone chemistry and help to learn more about life for sailors in the 16th century
The ‘urban revolution’ was slow in Bronze Age Arabia: the site of al-Natah, occupied 2400-1500BCE, was an early transitional stage between pastoralism and complex urban settlements
Coastal and underwater cave sites in southern Sicily contain important new clues about the path and fate of early human migrants to the island
